“To show favour to a villain is to sow in the sea, and to be guilty of an injustice.”

— Stefano Guazzo

Il far beneficio ad un tristo è seminar nel mare, è far atto d'ingiustizia.
Del Prencipe di Valacchia, p. 67.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 314.

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